At her confirmation hearing Thursday, Sen. Mitt Romney said Julie Su, the Biden administration's pick for Labor secretary, was 'biased' and that promoting her 'makes no sense.'
Su may have trouble clearing the Senate nomination process, as several swing senators still haven't said whether they'll support her nomination,Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana, and independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.
"Your record there is so severely lacking, I don't know how in the world it makes sense for the president to nominate you to take over this department," Romney saidRomney said the sum was "about as much as we provided in military aid to Ukraine," and he laid the blame for the fraud on Su. Su said that most of the fraud occurred in the pandemic unemployment insurance program, which "did not have the safeguards that regular unemployment insurance does."
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